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Originally Posted by Wilky
As far as I know, barbless is province wide. Why then, is it legal to sell barbed hooks?
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It is legal because, like other items, it is the application of the object,not the object it self that is illegal. The lures produced by all the major manufactures sell world wide and they are not going to start producing a whole new line of lures that are barbless because a few provinces decided to go to barbless.
I have been using barbless lures for years as well, handling time is reduced substantiallly and on quite a few occasions all that is required is to give the fish slack line, the hook will fall out, and the fish will swim away on its own.(with jigs anyway) With barbless there are numerous occassions when you don't even have to touch the fish or remove them from the water. Like it or not this decreased handling and the ability for the fish to stay in the water, increases survival rates by a huge margin.